Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se
Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomorrow. Yes, we all have an obligation to see taxpayer dollars are spent as efficiently and effectively as possible, especially in fulfilling the first job of the federal government which is to defend the country. But we all know from the news and from our In
Permanent residents, many errors involved. You can watch this conversation on immigration and sanctuary cities any time on line, cspan. Org, go to our video library. We take to you a hearing underway, the House Armed Services committee on the fiscal 2018 budget request and emerging threats. Hearing now from admiral mike rogers, commander of u. S. Cyber command. I think back to the dialogue in the 1980 whz when i first joined first commissioned in the military in the aftermath of the failure of desert one and the effort to rescue those u. S. Hostages being held in the embassy in terrain. We had a lot of dialogue about is soft so specialized, so poorly understood by theth broad conventional part of the military, so needing of specific attention that we should create a separate sof service. We ultimately decided that the right answer was to create a joint war fighting construct. Thus in 198 was born special operations command. In addition we said that that operational entity needed to be
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging the subcommittee will come to order. This is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber h cyber. This is an increasingly important domain of warfare and an area where we have increased our emphasis on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forts tods protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyber space. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 ndaa, i have made cyber and sigher warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming workz weeks, we plan to introduce standalone cyber warfare information that strengthens congressional oversight of Cyber Operations including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the event of unauthorized disclosures. We look forward to continuing to work with
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services committee. With the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. This is an increasingly important area on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forces to protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyberspace. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 and daa, i have made cyber and cyber warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming weeks, Mac Thornberry and i, and the house Ranking Member adam smith stand to introduce legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of sensitive military cyberoperations, including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the e